Friedrich Overbeck
(1789–1869) tysk konstnär
Friedrich Overbeck (1789–1869) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a draughtsman. By year of birth, Friedrich Overbeck belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.
Friedrich Overbeck was born in Lübeck and died in Rome. Friedrich Overbeck trained at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Katharineum. Friedrich Overbeck worked in Rome. Wikidata associates Friedrich Overbeck with Neoclassicism and Nazarene movement. Friedrich Overbeck became a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Académie des beaux-arts. The awards include Order of Saint Michael, Commander's Cross of the Order of Franz Joseph, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, and Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art. The students included Karl von Blaas.
The best-known works include ‘Italia and Germania’, ‘The Selling of Joseph’, ‘The Painter Franz Pforr’, and ‘The Triumph of Religion in the Arts’. The catalogue has 17 works by Friedrich Overbeck with free images. The dated works span the years 1810–1900. Works by Friedrich Overbeck are held by several collections, among them Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Alte Nationalgalerie, Prints in the National Gallery of Art, and Museum Behnhaus Drägerhaus. Wikidata links 6 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘Romanticism’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Louis Dupré, Jules Robert Auguste, John Martin, Elisabeth Charlotta Karsten, and Alexandre-François Caminade.